"transversary" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1888, William John Gordon, The Captain-general: Being the Story of the Attempt of the Dutch to Colonize New Holland",
          "text": "There was a “pole” duly graduated, and on it, so as to slip up and down, were certain cross-pieces known as “transversaries.”",
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          "ref": "1992, Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin, The Mariner's Mirror",
          "text": "In Coignet's cross-staff not one but three transversaries are used. With these transversaries angles between respectively 90° and 30°, 30° and 10° and less than 10° are measured.",
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        "A cross-beam or cross-bar, for example on a navigational cross-staff. (Compare transom.)"
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        "(now historical) A cross-beam or cross-bar, for example on a navigational cross-staff. (Compare transom.)"
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        "Transverse."
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        },
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          "ref": "1992, Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin, The Mariner's Mirror",
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